How to format your references using the AIMS Bioengineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Bioengineering. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Jimenez-Sanchez G (2003) Developing a platform for genomic medicine in Mexico. Science 300: 295–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Donaldson ZR, Young LJ (2008) Oxytocin, vasopressin, and the neurogenetics of sociality. Science 322: 900–904.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jaeger TF, Pontillo D, Graff P (2012) Comment on ‘Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa’. Science 335: 1042; author reply 1042.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miller CR, Wang DK, Smart S, et al. (2013) Reversible redox effect on gas permeation of cobalt doped ethoxy polysiloxane (ES40) membranes. Sci Rep 3: 1648.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Tms (2011) Engineering Solutions for Sustainability, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Herrling PL, Matter A, Schultz RM (Eds.) (2005) Advances in Targeted Cancer Therapy, Basel, Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Ivanov P, Anderson P (2011) Stress-Induced Ribonucleases, In: Nicholson AW (Ed.), Ribonucleases, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 115–134.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for AIMS Bioengineering.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) IFLScience, Global Carbon Emissions Plateaued In 2015, According To BP, 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-carbon-emissions-plateaued-in-2015-according-to-bp/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1992) FAA Budget: Key Issues Need to Be Addressed, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Gade S (2017) Design and Implementation of Hybrid Hyperchaotic Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Vecsey G (2011) Watching Argentina Up Close, Hoping to Learn Something. New York Times D8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	AIMS Bioengineering
ISSN (online)	2375-1495
Scope